BJP Manifesto Summary 2014

BJP Manifesto Summary 2014
Summary BJP Manifesto, India, 2014 1

Preface
Starts with Indias contribution to science and wisdom to this world
But after the independence leaders lost the spirit and vision
Framework to govern was British that was unlike what India could
achieve
Governance was marred by lack of trust and excessive controls
Liberalization of 1990s was half hearted
UPAs biggest blow to the nation was that they took out Genuineness
from governance, authenticity from administration
It has given administration of entitlement without delivery
We now represent economy of deficits, work culture of delays and an
asset base of deficiency

Most urgent: tackling price rise
Price rise: food inflation has crippled HH budgets and contributed to
overall disinflationary trend
Committee of Chief ministers under Narendra Modi has already
submitted a report on food inflation in 2011
Report was not acted upon by UPA
Cater to rein in inflation by
Measures and controls and special courts to stop hoarding and black
marketing
Set up price stabilisation front
Unbundle FCI operations into procurement, storage and distribution for
greater efficiency
Leverage on technology to disseminate real time data to farmers on
production, prices, imports, stock availability
Most urgent: tackling price rise/ Employment &
Entrepreneurship
Evolve single National Agricultural Market
Promote and support area specific crops and vegetables linked to food
habits of people

Employment & Entrepreneurship: strategically develop high impact
domains like labour intensive manufacturing (Textiles, footwear,
electronics assembly) and tourism
Strengthen traditional employment bases of agriculture and allied industries,
retail through modernization as well as stronger credit and market linkages
Upgrade infra and housing for its job generating potential
Encourage and empower youth for self employment

Corruption: promote technology enabled e-governance
Most urgent: Corruption/ Policy Paralysis/ Poor Delivery
System based policy governance
Rationalization and simplification of tax regime
Simplification of processes and procedures at all levels

Poor Delivery:
Remove bottlenecks & missing links in all sectors of the economy
Focus on proper planning and execution for right outcomes
Strive for scale and speed with futuristic vision
Build institutions for today and tomorrow

Credibility crisis
Restore credibility of Union of India

1. Strengthen the framework
Centre State relations
Place Centre state relations on even keel through process of consultation and
strive for harmonious relations
GOI will enabler and facilitator in rapid progress of state, evolve a national
model of development driven by states
Team India to include PM and State CMs & other functionaries
Ensuring fiscal autonomy of states with fiscal discipline
Create regional council of states, with common problems and concerns
Encourage co-operation amongst states on security related issues, inter state
disputes and for removing their inter regional economic disparities and
promote tourism
Hill and desert specific development models will be evolved
UTs will receive special attention, tourism will be promoted, infrastructure
and coastal development will be given priority
National development council and Inter State council like bodies will be
revived and made active
Involve state governments in promotion of foreign trade and commerce

Integrating the nation
Bring eastern India on par with western India
Special focus on eastern india development
GoI to play the role of enabler and facilitator to rapid progress of states,
planning along regional aspirations, strengths and potential
NDA had set up Ministry of NE region to bring NE India upto speed
This ministry would now be empowered with a broader charter and funds
Emphasis on massive infrastructure development specially along line of
control in Arunachal and Sikkim
Address the issue of flood control in Assam and river water management
Job generating opportunities like Tourism and IT
Address the issue of infiltration and illegal immigrants in NE on priority basis
Complete fencing along India Bangladesh border & India Myanmar
border
Measures for safety of students from NE
Deal with insurgency with a firm hand
J&K
Agenda of equal and rapid development in all 3 regions of J, K and Ladakh
Return of Kashmiri pandits to their land with full dignity, security and
assured livelihood
Long pending problems of refugees from POK
Stand on article 370 committed to abrogation

Good governance, better infrastructure, educational opportunities,
healthcare and more job opportunities

2. Decentralization and Peoples participation
From representative to participative democracy
Jan bhagidari development process will be peoples movement
PPP to be PPPP people, public, private partnership
Committed to self governance at local level empower Panchayati Raj
institutions and extensive devolution of 3Fs Functions, Functionaries and
Funds
Strengthen the institution of Gram Sabha, respect their inputs & initiatives
for development process

3. Reform the system
India first
Open government & accountable administration
Administrative reforms will be a priority, to be implemented under an
appropriate body under PMO
Objective is to bring in transparency in Governments decision making
process
Effective Lokpal institution will be set up
Digitization of government records will be top priority
Performance review, social and environmental audit would be mandated
Open up Government to draw extensive expertise from the industry
Government will be redefined by elimination of obsolete laws, regulation,
administrative structures, practices and would be purpose
Generate Kartavya Bhavna among public servants and productivity of
people is dependent on quality and efficiency of public services

4. E-Governance, Easy, Efficient, Effective
Increase the penetration and usage of broadband across the country
Deployment of broadband in every village
Engage people through social media for participative governance and
effective public redressed
Generate IT based jobs and rural and semi urban india
Make technology enabled products affordable for students
Use technology to reduce burden of books on children, make all institutions
e enabled, digital learnings and training to be used extensively
Mission mode project under National rural internet and technology mission
for use of tele medicine and mobile healthcare delivery, use of IT for
agriculture for real time information, self help groups, retail trade & SME
National e governance plan to cover every government office from the
centre to panchayat. E gram, Vishwa gram to be implemented nation wide
4. E-Governance, Easy, Efficient, Effective
Promote e bhasha; national mission for promotion of IT in Indian languages
Deploy IT to protect Indias priceless cultural and artistic heritage
Promote open source and open standard software
Mandate digitization of all government work
Set up high speed digital highways to unite the nation
Use technology to reduce T&D losses
Use mobile and e banking to ensure financial inclusion

5. Institution reform, Administrative, Judicial, Police, Electoral
Administrative
Administration to be made accountable to their tasks
Rationalization & convergence of ministries, departments & other arms of
government to ensure focus on delivery
Judicial
Address the issue of appointment of judges, filling of vacancies, opening new
courts, setting up mechanism for speedy clearance of backlog of various
cases
Mission mode project for filling vacancies in judiciary and for doubling
number of courts and judges
Set up national judicial commission for appointment of judges in higher
judiciary
Set up separate class of courts for involving specified commercial laws
Initiate computerization and networking of courts all over the country
Implement national litigation policy to reduce average pendency in time
Periodically review and refine outdated laws
Emphasis on Alternate dispute resolution mechanisms like Lok adalats,
arbitration centers
Set up National e library, empowering lawyers
Develop India into global hub for arbitration and legal process outsourcing
Police
Strategy to bring Indian police at par with international standards
Training and capacity building of police forces
Modernize equipping them with latest technology
Overhaul intelligence set up with focus on co-ordination and integration of
human technological intel
Modernize prison system with technology and infrastructure

Focus to prevent Cyber crime
Develop community policing

6. Poor and marginalized: Bridge the gap
Strengthen delivery of poverty alleviation program through convergence,
transparency and efficiency
Identify 100 most backward districts and bring them on par with other
districts
Strengthen natural resource base to tide over natural calamities
Aim to gainfully employ rural poor in agriculture and allied activities
Food security
Review successful PDS models and incorporate best practices
Encourage production of cereals, pulses and oils
Transform Food corporation of India (FCI)

7. Neo middle class meet the aspirations
Priority on educational scholarships & educational facilities, medical
insurance and quality healthcare, middle income housing, efficient
public transport systems
Rural areas
Rural rejuvenation: Rurban bring urban amenities to rural India
Major thrust areas for rural development will be improve village level
infrastructure in terms of roads, potable water, education, health, supply
chain, electricity, broadband, job creation, security in rural areas and
linkages to markets
Urban areas
Urbanization to be looked as an opportunity rather than a threat
Major steps in Transport & Housing for urban upliftment
Initiate building 100 new cities, enabled with latest technology and
infrastructure (sustainability, walk to work, focused on specialized domains)
7. Neo middle class meet the aspirations
Build on concept of twin cities and satellite towns
Transition from basic infrastructure to public utility services like waste and
water management
Cleanliness and sanitation will be given a priority efficient waste and water
management systems
WiFi facilities to be made available in commercial centres
Urban poverty alleviation to be focus
Use technology for scientific, strategic and long term town planning
including GIS based mapping
Quality public transport systems, discourage use of private vehicles

8. Leap forward
Social security
Children to be the focus
Effective implementation of right to education, right to food security act
Review, amend, strengthen child and adolescent labour act and integrated
child protection scheme
Address anaemia
Reduce burden of books without compromising on quality of education
Senior citizens
Provide financial support, explore ideas like additional tax benefits and
higher interest rates
Invest in setting up and improving old age homes
Harness experience in national interest

9. Youth Making India unstoppable
Initiate youth leadership program in all sectors to recognize, reward, involve
these exceptionally talented youth to serve role models
Set up National youth advisory council
Initiate nation wide district level incubation and accelerator program for
encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship
Simplified availability of student loans
Youth for development program to be launched
Women the nation builder
33% reservation for women in parliamentary and state assemblies through
constitutional amendment
Launch national campaign for girl child save and educate her beti bachao,
beti padao
Structure comprehensive schemes incorporating best practices like Balika
samrudhi, etc

10. Women the nation builder
Mission mode on Women healthcare especially on nutrition and pregnancy
Set up dedicated women ITIs
Self defense as part of school curriculum
Set up all women mobile bank
Special training and business incubator park for women
Special business facilitation center for women
Set up women small & medium enterprises cluster in every district
Adult literacy initiative for women
Loans to women self help groups at low interest rates

11. Education: Enroll and excel
School education
Sarva shiksha abhiyan: mechanism to review the performance
Universalization of secondary school education and skills
Content and process of school education to be reviewed to make it dynamic,
stress free
National modernization program for madrasa
Mid day meal scheme to be vitalized in terms of management & delivery
Reduce burden of books
Set up national e library
Higher and professional education
Rework work culture of teacher training institutions
Mechanism for close interaction with industry and academia and community
UGC to be restructured and transform it into higher edu commission
12. Skills focus on productivity and employability
Revisit apprenticeship act to facilitate youth to earn while they learn
Vocational training
Set up massive open online courses and virtual classrooms
Correspondence courses in self employment, family run businesses
Skill development
Mission mode on skill mapping
Launch National multi skill mission
Set up centres for excellence with industry
Industry responsive manpower industry, universities & government
Promote vocational training on massive scale
Impart soft skills, national program on national languages
Digital empowerment

13. Health services, access, quality and cost
New health policy
Initiate national health assurance mission to provide universal healthcare
that is accessible and affordable
Review role of various bodies for educating healthcare professionals
Modernize government hospitals, upgrade infra & tech
Re organize ministry of healthcare and family welfare in order to converge
various departments
Increase public investment to promote Yoga and Ayurveda
Premptive care model for children
Focus on rural healthcare delivery
Utilize mobiles for healthcare delivery, set up national e-health authority to
leverage tele medicines and mobile healthcare
Universalization of medical health services 108
Mission mode on population stabilization
13. Health services, access, quality and cost
National mosquito control mission
Swatch Bharat by 2019 mission mode
Open defecation free india by enabling people to build toilets in their homes
and public places
Modern, scientific sewage and waste management systems
Sanitation ratings for towns and cities
Potable drinking water for all
Economic revival
Strict fiscal discipline
Allocate resources efficiently and effectively
Re visit policy framework for domestic and foreign investments
Undertake banking reforms to enhance ease and access
Encourage savings as driver for growth & investment

14. Economic revival
NPA
Reduce NPA in banking sector
Taxation
Rationalize and simplify tax regime
Overhaul dispute resolution mechanisms
Implement GST
Tax incentives for investments in R&D, indigenization of technology and
innovation
FDI
Barring multi brand retail, FDI will be allowed
15. Agriculture, productive, scientific, rewarding
Increase public investment in agriculture and rural development
Steps to improve farm profitability, ensure 50% profits of cost of production,
cheaper agriculture inputs and credit, introduce latest technologies for
farming & high yielding seeds and linkage to MGNREGA
Welfare measures for farmers above 60 years in age, small and marginal
farmers and labours
Introduce and promote low water consuming irrigation techniques
Introduce soil testing based crop planning & setting up mobile testing labs
Re orient pest management techniques
Set up Agro Processing Clusters, providing high value, export oriented
Focus on quality, productivity and trade of spices
Set up Organic farming and fertilizer corporation of India to promote organic
farming and fertilizers & provide incentives and support for marketing
organic produce
Introduce rotation farming for herbal products, based on geographical
mapping
Implement farm insurance scheme to take care of farm income loss
Strengthen and expand rural credit facilities
Promote horticulture, floriculture, pisciculture, bee keeping and poultry
Promote fish farming and aqua culture
Create cluster based storage systems
Consumer friendly farmers market to reduce wastages and increase incomes
and risk coverage
Reform APMC act
Work with states to set up seed culture labs in each district and regional ag
innovation centers
Regional kisan tv channels
High priority to poverty alleviation in rural areas
GM foods to be allowed after full scientific evaluation on its long term
effects on soil
National land use policy scientific acquisition of non cultivable land and its
development
National land use authority to work with State land use authorities to
facilitate land management
16. Industry- modern, caring and competitive
Make doing business in india friendly
Cut red tape, simplify processes
Ensure logistics infra including stable power
Attempt to move towards single clearance window
Transparent and timely clearances on environmental issues
World class investment & industrial regions as global hubs of mfg
Task force to review and revive our MSME enabling it with better access to
credit and technology
Manufacturing
High priority for growth of mfg
Interest rates rationalization, clear policy to remove uncertainty
Increase public spends in R&D and incentivize R&D by the industry
Facilitate setting up of software and hardware mfg parks
16. Industry- modern, caring and competitive
Easier custom clearances and visas
MSME
International linkages for exports, dedicated SME bank for credit availability
Adoption of IT
Handicrafts
Market linkages both national and international
Access to credit and up gradation

17. Services quality and efficiency
Business & trade
Zero defect products
World class ports connecting them with railways and roads
Air cargo facilities to be enhanced
Export promotion mission to be established
CAD to be brought down aggressively
IT network to be in place for GST implementation
Availability of institutional credit
Review obsolete and multiple laws and reduce them
Revive telecom revolution
Tourism
Mission mode 50 tourist circuits to offer affordable tourism

18. Labor force pillar of growth
Issue ID cards to unorganized labor, arrangement to provide good quality
health and education services
Dedicated workers bank
Review labor laws (outdated, complicated and contradictory)
Strengthen pension and health care safety nets
Housing
Massive low cost housing program
Every family to have pucca house of its own
Prioritise all resources towards this goal
Leverage on land as a resource in urban areas and demand for unskilled
labor in rural areas

19. Physical infrastructure -
Work on freight corridors and industrial corridors will be expedited
Remote areas NE and J&K to be connected with world class highways and
roads
NH projects to be expedited, especially border and coastal roads
Every village to be connected through all weather roads
Modernize existing and operational airports and build new ones especially
smaller towns and tourism circuits
Inland transportation air strips to enable low cost air transportation
Economic port led model of development modernize existing ports,
develop new ones
PPP to be crucial
Next generation infrastructure
Gas grids to make gas available for HH and industry
National optical fibre network upto village level & WiFi zones in public area
Harness advanced satellite technology and expertise for development
Transport
Create public transport system, reduce dependence on cost and time
(personal transport)
Launch integrated public transport project which will include road, rail,
waterways
Develop waterways for passenger and cargo transport
Develop national logistics network for faster movement of goods
Railways
Hinterland to be connected through strategic rail networks
Agri rail network to be established train wagon specially designed to
specific needs of agri products like milk & vegetables, light wagons for salt
Tourism rail including pilgrimage rail
Modernize railways
Developing skills of human resources
Prioritize safety & invest in stressed infra
Diamond quadrilateral project Bullet train network

Water potable, all homes, farms, factories
India to be water stressed state by 2050
Launch pradhan mantri gramin sinchayee yogyna with a motto har khet ko
paani
Ground water recharge harnessing rain water to reduce dependence on
ground water
Sewage treatment plants to prevent river pollution
Desalination plants for drinking water for supply in coastal cities
Inter linking of rivers based on feasibility
Set up drinking water supply grid
Promote de centralized demand driven community managed water resource
Facilitate piped water
Energy generate more, use rationally, waste less
National energy policy
Focus on development of energy infra, HR and up grade technology
Set up small hydro power generation projects to harness power
Increase domestic coal production, exploration, oil and gas exploration to be
expedited as well
Expand and strengthen national solar mission

20. Science & technology
Ensure food, agriculture, nutritional, environmental, wealth, health, energy
security of people through science and technology
Mounting efforts to alleviate poverty
Sustainability
Cleaner production
Cleaner fuels particularly in cities
Pro active carbon credit to be promoted
Ecological audit of projects and pollution indexing
Guidelines for green buildings and energy efficient work places
National mission on himalayas
Himalayan sustainability fund

21. Natural & National Resources
National policies on critical resources like coal, mineral, spectrum bringing in
clarity
State governments to be taken into confidence for the same
Implement auction process of precious resources through e auction
Resource mapping, exploration and management
Defence
Technology transfer in defence manufacturing to be encouraged
Invest in Thorium technology program


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